Guns, Drugs, and Documentary Photography

Boston's Weekly Dig newspaper has an article about "Boogie," a Brooklyn-based photographer who has been documenting his city's gang culture. Boogie started on his photographic odyssey by hanging out with crack addicts, capturing them in their most unguarded moments, often while doing drugs. Soon, he moved on to photographing Bloods holding pistols and making drug deals. Boogie has an unusual philosophy towards his subjects:

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About Me

Tom Gibbons joined CameraArts as an Editorial Assistant in the Fall of 2005, and soon found himself editing Photo Journal, the one-time sister publication to CameraArts that was much enjoyed by the four people who read it. The elements that worked were transplanted to The CameraArts Blog and FRAMES: The CameraArts Newsletter in late 2006. Since then, it’s been a wild ride of learning in-depth aspects of fine art photography and writing about it on the fly. Also, Tom has learned that if you start using “local niche newspaper” to describe your publication, it’s better to start a blog, or to panhandle on the freeway.